"Victor" is definitely one of MGM's best musicals. But it's rarely seen as a standard musical, for one reason it's so exotic—good-looking, but atypical. In many classic musicals, it seems so out of place. It allows people to see how musical films can be made without the narrative logic of Hollywood. The film is different from the story setting of ordinary musical films that are divorced from reality. Although its time back is set in Paris in the 1930s, this musical film with the theme of sexual inversion obviously caters to the sexual liberation trend in the early 1980s. The musical is a rare liberation. If a gay film abandons the discussion of sexual orientation, it is relatively deviated from the realism attribute. But in "Victor," Edwards handles both very neatly. Beyond the understated lyricism, the film also has powerful passages. When Marchand chose to be with Victoria when he didn't know her true identity, his phrase "whether you are a man or a woman" is almost as good as "no one is perfect" in "Passionate". And Marchand's bodyguard inadvertently smashed him after being "bent" and said "So boss, you are gay", which is even more amazing. Victor, played by Julie Andrews Edwards, is a woman trying to imitate a drag male singer. She not only found a balance between the two, but also made people discover a kind of neutral beauty that has never been seen before
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2022-03-14 08:01
Extended Reading
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Chelsea 2022-03-27 09:01:21
I really want to write an ancient version of the story. A man pretends to be Kunsheng in Yue Opera for a living (most men in Peking Opera pretend to be women, and Yue Opera more women pretend to be men), and finally finds true love.
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Raquel 2022-03-26 09:01:14
A woman pretending to be a man and pretending to be a woman singing and dancing is magical
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Victoria: Could I see the wine list?
Waiter: We have a white 1934, we have a red 1934. Last week we had some Rosee, but we're using it in the salad.
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Toddy: You know, it's very strange. At the club, I thought you were just about at the end of your rope.
Victoria: Oh, I was. I am! This is the first decent meal I've had in almost four days.
Toddy: And you can't pay for it?
Victoria: [makes breaking motion with hands] Caseé!
Toddy: [chuckling] And you want me to have dinner with you?
Victoria: I want you to have the best damn dinner you ever had. Have two! I started off with the roast chicken and I segued to boeuf bourguignon. It's anybody's guess what I could end up with.
Toddy: Oh, I'd guess about thirty days.
Victoria: If all goes well, I expect to leave here poor, but sated. I have a... a bug in my purse. At the appropriate moment, it goes in my salad.
Toddy: It'll never work.
Victoria: A bug in my salad?
Toddy: In a place like this, it would be an event if there WASN'T a bug in your salad.
Victoria: What about a... cockroach?
Toddy: [shocked] A cockroach!
Victoria: Shhh! Bigger than your thumb!
Toddy: Ew, God!